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For instance, while conventional wisdom would recommend keeping a tidy desk, studies suggest that a messy desk can boost creativity. “Disorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition, which can produce fresh insights,” the lead researcher said. “Orderly environments, in contrast, encourage convention and playing it safe.”
Environmental Psychology: How Your Surroundings Shape Your Mind
What makes a good self-help book?
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The Life Changing Power Of Rebounding - Why I'll Never Stop Bouncing
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Our modern age is criticised for self-obsession. It can be hard to make an argument for thinking about the self without getting lost in the quagmire of 21st-century vapidity. But the popularity of psychology books is a celebration of something different: therapists are distilling their practice to make readers better equipped to understand themselv... See more
What makes a good self-help book?
This is about self-help books. The danger is that readers try to apply something that won’t work because of their unique biography and context. And because of the writer's authority, they may think they are the problem. Ironically, when this happens, the intention of the author of the self-help book backfires!
Self-help, or personal growth or Personal transformation are growing sections in book stores and are perhaps an expression of the focus on self and individualism. Becaus it is self-help, you have to help yourself, it is not: Social Help - doing help with others.
Individuation: Accessing your Hidden Intelligence
youtube.comHe cites research by Harvard social psychologist Ellen Langer in her 2009 book Counterclockwise , that suggests that by creating a “reminiscence bump” for residents of their own past college experiences, university-based communities may even help to “reverse” ageing. “You are as young as you feel. If you put people in their past environments,” he s... See more